I’m not a fan of Stag. I’m a beer snob. But I understand the brand, at least, what it is these days. A cheap no-nonsense, don’t-give-a-shit beer, as in: it competes on price, not quality. Maybe the brand also has a little nostalgia, but that might be purely accidental. I’m not all that familiar with what the brand meant in the past. I know it was a regional beer, and this little find I made at the St. Louis Curio Shoppe suggests that they had, at least, some ambitions to be a mid-market to premium product. I don’t know enough about the history of the company to...

I’ve always wanted to try my hand at a book trailer. So when Amanda Doyle reached out to me for ideas on how to promote her new Guidebook to St. Louis it was one of the things I suggested we do. It seems to have been effective. It got people buzzing about it and has reached the top of the local best seller lists. The trailer often gets included in blog posts and news sites when the book has been written about and has become a valuable part of her press...

Diane Keaggy wrote this nice piece about our film for the St. Louis Post Dispatch and STLToday.com in August:
Bill Streeter’s award-winning video blog, Lo-Fi Saint Louis, boasts St. Louis’ best musicians, artists and burlesque queens. But for his first feature-length film, Streeter showcases a subject that, on the surface, seems pretty dull: brick.
“I admit it seems a little nutty,” Streeter says. “But the more I learned about the history here and how that history is being stolen by brick thieves, I realized this could be a good film. One of the things that...

We were anxious to read our first review and it’s good! check this part out:
Like anything we see every day, brick is largely taken for granted, which is why BRICK BY CHANCE AND FORTUNE: A ST. LOUIS STORY is such a revelation. Even viewers who’ve never given St. Louis brick a second thought should be impressed how Streeter unexpectedly manages to turn a seemingly narrow subject into the type of relevant discourse that a great documentary should be.
–Tom Stockman We Are Movie Geeks
We’re very proud, read the whole review...